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The one stand-out result from the month was my $62 win (8th out of 503) in Full Tilt's "Five by Five" which I had satellited into for just $0.22 on Aug 10th.

It propelled my BR up to $76 and opened up a bunch of SNGs and MTTs that I was hitherto unable to afford under my 100 buy-in BRM rule.

However, just five days later, with only a handful of mostly min-cashes to show, the BR had already slid down to $62 . . . almost a 20% drop.

I thought to myself "WHOOOOAAAA !!!". Having seen my BR swiftly head south before (after similar spikes), I was damned if I was going to let this happen all over again.

Reluctantly I decided it was time to crank up the "nitty factor" . . . and implement a 200 buy-in rule. So, out went the $0.50 SNGs, $0.55 MTTs and suchlike . . . and back came the $0.10 SNGs and $0.22 satellites . . . plus some 0.27 MTTs.

The only occasions where the BRM rule was flouted was when I had to complete the Poker Stars Daily Summer Challenges ($1.50 HU and Fifty50 SNGs, a few ZOOM 1c/2c cash hands and a solitary $0.50 SNG-45). These were few and far between.

It hasn't stopped a disappointing run of results, but the BR decline has slowed dramatically . . . down to $57 (when it could so easily have plunged to around $40 or less).

One by-product of this uber-tight BRM is that my BR is now pretty much bomb-proof, which means that the "scared money" syndrome is all but dead and buried and I have been able to experiment with a few more aggressive short-stacked shoves, utilising loads of fold equity . . . and have been surprised at how many have paid off.

I'd love to be able to report (in a month's time) that the BR has risen to over $100 . . . but patience, as they say, is a virtue. And as many of us have found, you really need a LOT of patience playing poker!

Agree with you decision to be nitty with your bankroll. I also use 200 buy ins and also 2% maximum daily bankroll spend. Gives me the time to play the Privilege and other freerolls and get free money from them. Gratz on your win I'm jealous. My best result was a 4th place on another site only 10.5 euros. GL at the tables.